Commuters in Bengaluru, notorious for its traffic congestion, recently had a peculiar experience during a gridlock when they encountered a car ahead of them displaying two unsettling faces.
Formerly known as Twitter, Seshal Jain shared a brief video this week from within dense Bengaluru traffic, capturing the view of a cab ahead. The video highlighted two eerie masks attached to the backseat headrests of a Swift Dzire, resembling characters reminiscent of the Joker from DC Comics. These masks created an illusion of two figures peering back at fellow commuters, sparking amusement across social media.
@peakbengaluru pic.twitter.com/iq1OzWltol
— Seshal Jain (@seshaljain) July 4, 2024
Jain tagged the popular X account Peak Bengaluru, which responded with a laughing emoji. The post quickly gained over 1,800 views shortly after being shared on X.
“If you think Bengaluru traffic can’t get any more interesting, remember the story of a man who found love amid road chaos?” reminisced one user. They recounted a tale from two years prior when a Reddit user met his future wife during a frustrating traffic jam near Sony World Signal in the city’s IT hub. What began as a dinner diversion due to construction at Ejipura flyover blossomed into a three-year courtship culminating in marriage.
Bengaluru, India’s most congested city, showed a marginal improvement in the latest global rankings of the world’s most congested cities by Amsterdam-based location technology specialist TomTom. It currently holds the position as the sixth slowest city worldwide in terms of traffic, according to the report.